Women and Home.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 9, 6 March 1930, Page 2

Women and Home.

Airs R. Belcher of Pembroke Hoad] is spending a holiday with her sister at Lepperton. Air and Airs H. Nicholls of Pembroke Road are away on a motor tour. Airs. F. Rear left this morning on a yisib to Wellington. dot you know her? I’ll give you the orders at once, cook, as I’m going out. We’ll have the ham for lunch, so you’d better get some sort of salad —celery, I think- —or shall we have tomatoes? I don’t believe we’ve had beetroot for some time, though,; we might have had that for a change. Oh, about the ham, though; if we have that for lunch we can’t have it for dinner, and if Air Smith comes there won’t be enough of those vissoles. I think you'd bettor get some chops for hmch after all and keep the ham—or a bit of fish —no, I think chops are nicer. In. case that salad won’t dp; you’ll have to cook a hot vegetable. A cauliflower would be a good idea if the greengrocer has any nice ones, and if not a nice cabbage—or perhaps we’d better have the cabbage anyhow. The salad will do for supper then—oh, no I told yon not to get any after all, didn’t T? Do whichever I said. And for pudding—rice, I think or perhaps you tiniik ot something. Have yon got all that quite clear ? But why not? Why “'ever dSclu t you ..write it down as I tell you? Well you must do the best you can, I can’t wait. Toll nurse to get baby ready, will you? They’d better come with me. 1 ni going to Blank >s to buy a frock—a green velveteen fnc afternoons. I’m not sure thougu that 1 shan’t buyja blue sorgo. I don’t think I’ll take baby alter a li, cook, bo’s rather a bother m shops. HOT WEATHER WISDOM.

To keep butter firm in hot wea. tbor fill a large basin with cold water

put in as much kitchen salt as the water will dissolve, then fold the butter in grease-proof paper and drop it in, stand the basin in a cool place, and the butter will keep beautifully hard.

A good way to treat cream is ta add a little white sugar to it, and cook it slowly in a double saucepan. When there is thunder about it is always safer to preserve cream in this way. A COAT ECONOMY.

“A coat nowadays”, says. Fashion, “must be a blood relation to the frock it is worn with”. If the coat is plaih and the dress flowered, the flowered stuff must reappear on the coat either as rovers, collar lining, or coat lining. But this at once limits the use ct the coat. Never can it be worn quite satisfactorily with frocks other than the one made for it. It is a bright idea, therefore, instead of using the frock material, to line yonr little stand-up collar, and ail the way down the inside the fronts with thro© stripes of different colours. Petersham ribbon could he bought and sewn down by one edge’ only, each strip slightly overlapping; or (you could buy that three-rfoloured wool ribbon that is now sold for hats,. Or, cheaper still, darn in wool oi three colours on a strip of soft curtain net, and sew if, into place. There in one thing to he remembered. the three colours must he part of a definite dress scheme. The original coat, and frock i« black, say, with the flower on the frock in greens nnd yellow and a, sort of sand colour. Tlie idea, then, T f<; have the the three colour stripes of your coat in sand, yellow or green. Then either'frock looks part of a scheme. If ale your simple black hat is tiimmcn with black, sand and green or yellow—not green apd ’ yellow—for one ribbon stripe cneht always to match your hat; your ensemble will he ahovG criticism.